Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-04-13
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

The widow Of Thomas L. Church, al
old resident of Chicago, killed herself will
a revolver at Evanston the other morning
MosT says that he VII again defiantl,
unfold the banner Of social revolution ant
fight till the last drop OF blood in his bod,
has been she'd" This is brave talk, in.
deed, but, when wanted, the police vii
find Most, as usual, under his mistress
bed.
A. c. McNEILL, Of Chicago, persuaded
Judge Gary to issue warrant for the seiz.
ure Of gambling implements in the house
OF tef Hankins, on South Clark street.
deputy sheriff executed the writ, and had
placed some roulette tables in the hall VIII 4
they were replevied by another deputy.
CHARLES CHESTER, of Bradford, Penn
sylvania, was shot dead while entering the
residence Of A. r. Cntln at jamestown,
New York, early one morning.
ANOTHER bequest by the late Miss Cath.
crime Wolfe, Of New York, has just been
made kncwn TO the public $780, 600 10
Grace Church, on Broadway, the income
OF which is to be applied TO the mainten-
ance and decoration Of the edifce.
IT is rumorel in Florida that the Rich
mond Terminal Syndicate is negotiating
for control of the Georgia Central road and
the Florida Railway and Navigation Com
pany's system.
Cri and cas-
AT Westield Corners, Illinois, John
Hogan was Knocked down and then seized
by the neck and shaken to death by a saw
age stallion.
MILWAUKEE was startled recently by
the explosion Of the boilers in the ship
yard Of Wolf l. Davidson, at the foot of
Washington street. The damage is esti.
mated at $4,000.
A DISPATCH from Texarkana says that
Walter Ridgeley, farmer living eight
miles north Of there, was lured from his
house recently by three members Of tho
Murphy family. who attempted to assas-
sinate him. In the fght that ehsued be
killed oil three and received half dozen
wounds himself. A month ago be killed
two of the Murphys in dispute about ex.
torting money from drummer. A few
days later he was ambushed and his horse
killed, but he succeeded in killing two
more of the family. The score now stands
seven to naught, but Ridgeley will doubt
less die, having received five balls from
rifes in the hands of the Murphys.
THE first week Of the Inter- State CON-
merce law shows reduction in California
freiRhts from Chicago from one hundred
carloads daily to three or four carloads.
A PITTsBuRG special says: Officials of
the Pam Handle Railway are making whole.
sale arrests of employees of that road, for
being concerned in a gigantic conspiracy
Of robbery. The officials Of the road claim
that during the past two years cars on the
Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st. Louis road
have been systematically robbed of prop
erty roughly estimated as being worth a
half a million dollars. Early this morning
one hundred policemen and detectives be.
gan concerted raid upon the boarding
houses and homes Of the Pam Handle Rail-
way employees and at o'clock forty four
conductors and brakemen were confined in
the county Jail.
GREAT preparn tons are being made in
Londcn for the anti coercion meeting to
be held in Hyde park.
IT appears that the recent death OF Gen.
Krock, the Russian commander at War
saw, was case OF suicide, brought about
by grief at the arrest Of his son for COM
plicity in the attempt to assassinate the
Gar.
THE commissioners appointed by Presi-
dent Cleveland to investigate the Pacific
roads are Robert Z. Patterson, ex-Gover-
nor Of Pennsylvania; E. Ellery Anderson,
an attorney Of New York, and David T.
Littler, of Illinois.